Gold, Richard

Mr. Richard S. Gold is President, Chief Operating Officer, Director of the Company. He served as an Executive Vice President of M&T from 2007 to 2017 and as Chief Risk Officer of M&T and M&T Bank from 2014 to 2017. Mr. Gold served as a Vice Chairman of M&T Bank from 2014 to 2017. He was an Executive Vice President of M&T Bank from 2006 to 2014. Mr. Gold is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Wilmington Trust, N.A. Mr. Gold serves on the Buffalo Seminary Board of Trustees in Buffalo, New York and on the Board of Directors of the Westminster Foundation in Buffalo, New York. He is also a director of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, a member of the Consumer Bankers Association Board of Directors and has been an adjunct professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo's School of Management since 2012. Mr. Gold is a director of M&T Bank. Mr. Gold joined M&T Bank in 1989 as an Executive Associate and has over 34 years of experience in banking. He has served M&T Bank in numerous executive and managerial positions in the Retail Banking, Consumer Lending, Mortgage, Business Banking, Risk, Marketing and Legal Divisions, which has provided him with valuable institutional knowledge. Mr. Gold holds a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and a Master of Business Administration from New York University Stern School of Business.

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